Desert road

This is a slighty latger version of a painting exercise I did lasr year.    My early memories are of the high desert country in Nevada.     Silver City -  East and a bit North of Carson City,
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 Virginia City and Gold Hill.    Purple hills.   Dry, windy, with colors sunbleached and vegetation parched.       Sage brush and scrub pines and occasional cottonwoods if there was any ground water.       Strangely I have no memory of any birds.    But I remember lizards, horned toads, and spiders.   The air is quite wonderful. Dry.   Hint of sage odor.     Here is a desert road.  Can you smell the sage?